Parris Renee Goebel (born 29 October 1991), also known professionally as Parri$, is a New Zealand-born choreographer, dancer, singer, director and actress of Samoan descent. Her dance crew The Royal Family has won the World Hip Hop Dance Championship three times.[1]

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Goebel was born and raised in Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand, the youngest of four children of Brett and LeeAnn Goebel. She was interested in dance from a young age and started hip-hop lessons when she was 10. When she was 15, she started the dance group ReQuest with four female friends.[1] Initially they practised in Goebel's aunt's garage and later at her father's warehouse.[1] After a year working together, they went to the Monsters of Hip Hop Dance Convention in the United States and Goebel was selected to dance in the finale performance of the convention.[1]

Goebel has worked with artists including Little Mix, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Big Bang, 2NE1, CL, iKon, G-Dragon, Taeyang, and Black Pink.[1][2] Her work has included choreographing routines and starring in music videos and movies. One of her notable successes was her work choreographing the video "Sorry" for Justin Bieber, which as of December 2016 is the 3rd most viewed video on YouTube with more than 2 billion views.[3] This video in fact won the 'best video of the year' award at AMAs.[4] Goebel went on to choreograph and direct all thirteen of Justin Bieber's Purpose: The Movement videos.[5] These videos have totalled over 4.6 billion views combined.

Goebel and her father, who is also her manager, run The Palace Dance Studio in Auckland.[1]

In 2015, her choreography for DeeWunn's "Mek It Bunx Up" went viral and has received over 8 million views on YouTube.

In 2015, Goebel was the leading choreographer for New Zealand's first hip-hop feature film, Born to Dance. Stan Walker, the winner of Australian Idol, 2009,[7] who starred as one of the main actors of the movie, described her as "the best" to work with.[8]

On 8 August 2016 Goebel released her first music video to the song "Friday", which was then featured on her EP Vicious.[9] Later in August 2016, she released a music video for "Nasty", which is also featured on the EP.

In December 2016 she released her debut album "Vicious" which featuring a slew of talent including Jamaican Dancehall star, DeeWunn.[10]

Goebel is known for her particular style, known as Polyswagg.[1] As she describes it, her style is based on hearing, breathing and living the music, being passionate while dancing and transmitting feelings. She also draws on music inspirations from the DanceHall style. Large amounts of her routines include this element, most notably in the Royal Family's World Hip Hop Dance Championship performances.

In 2009, Goebel was awarded the Street Dance New Zealand Choreographer of the Year and Dancer of the Year awards. In 2014, she was named Female Choreographer of the Year at the World Of Dance Awards in Los Angeles.[11]

In 2016 she won Female Choreographer of the Year and Live Performance of the Year at the World Of Dance Awards. In the same year, the advertisement that she choreographed for New Zealand Post won Worst Ad 2016 in the TVNZFair Go Ad Awards [14]